We are now feature complete for the next release of RSS Bandit and it's time to get the final bits of user testing before we declare the bits golden. You can obtain the installer from RssBandit.1.5.0.5.Jubilee.RC.zip. We've fixed a number of major bugs that were discovered during the beta including crashes related to building the Lucene search index and podcasts being repeatedly downloaded after the first successful download attempt. I'd like to thank all the people who tried out the beta and gave us feedback. Windows Vista users should be especially happy with this release since is the first version of RSS Bandit (ever) to work on that operating systems with no problems.

The major new features and bug fixes since the last official release (v.1.3.0.42) are listed below. There will be a comprehensive list of bug fixes and new features in the announcement for the final release. New features and bug fixes since the last beta are marked as .

Easily configurable keyboard shortcuts - Just right-click when hovering over the toolbar menu and choose "Customize". This feature came as a freebie from switching to Infragistics NetAdvantage for some of our UI components.

Major Bug Fixes

Feed items appear in wrong feed folders
- we now apply a set of heuristics to prevent this problem from
surfacing ever again. I'm pretty sure this problem is due to bugs in HTTP Pipelining. However it is unclear whether the bugs are in the .NET Frameworks HTTP library, proxy servers that RSS Bandit is passing through or the Web servers that the application is fetching feeds from.

Atom feeds from the Blogger beta site show no posts when viewed in RSS Bandit - this was just a dumb bug on my part.

Sites with malformed cookies cause feeds not to be fetched - Specifically, fetching cookies from sites such as Windows Live Spaces results in the "An error has occurred when parsing Cookie header". Now we just ignore the error and soldier on.

RSS Bandit stops downloading feeds after a while - This was
actually two bugs. The first was that the application stopped
automatically downloading feeds if any of them timed out while being
fetched. The other was that feeds with whitespace in the URLs were not
being updated.